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Meanings of take a pencil in English

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Usage of take a pencil in English
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Suppose you take a pencil and paper and write down all you did yesterday.
The Child's Day
2
Of he is asleep, and take a pencil in his hand, out come a cannon.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Or, if I take a pencil home, it's actually good for work because I can work more.
Wired
4
When you take a pencil, for example from work, there's all kinds of stories you can tell yourself.
Wired
5
Once I thought, "Shall I take a pencil and write it down lest I forget it?"
A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel
6
Next we pull a little slide in the back, take a pencil and write down the date and name.
The Children's Six Minutes
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Peggy had only to take a pencil in hand, and a verse seemed to come out on the paper.
Peggy in Her Blue Frock
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Sometimes she would even take a pencil or pen and a sheet of paper for old Blinky, and reproduce it.
The Burial of the Guns
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Besides, Joe says that all you have to do is to take a pencil and rub it over and no one can tell.
The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories
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And wasn't it lovely of me to let Livy take a pencil and edit my answer and knock a good third of it out?
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)
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A sadness washed over me when I pictured my daughter, excited to take a pencil and notepad to school to "play with" at lunch.
News.com.au
12
He dropped the hand, and taking a pencil wrote on a beam:
The End of the World: A Love Story
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He takes a pencil from the glove box and makes some notes.
Kings of the earth: a novel
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The secretary took a pencil and a tablet from his breast pocket.
A Little Princess / Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told...
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He took a pencil and struck a sharp blow on the table.
The Poisoned Pen
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They were these: and taking a pencil, Frank made the following marks:
Cord and Creese
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